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Mental health in quarantine
How do you look after your mental health in lockdown?
Members of the Actavo team weigh in with their thoughts on
quarantine wellbeing.
Emily Kenward, UK
Operations Manager – I’m
speaking to my family and
friends more than ever and
I’m trying to take the positive
view that when we all come
out of this that everyone will
appreciate each other more.
The face to face contact
will be more meaningful
and maybe we will make
more time for it and be in the
moment when there, leaving
the mobile phones in our
bags or pockets!
Denis Diggin, Managing
Director - Keep to a routine:
getting up, getting dressed,
sticking to meal times and
making the most of our one
daily piece of exercise. I am
a big fan of starting early
and getting out to the gym
for half an hour at lunchtime
when I can. Obviously the
gym is off the cards at the
moment, but I am still up at
the crack of dawn and taking
my daily walk at lunchtime.
Sol Hernandez, Office
Manager - “I have become
closer to my family in Spain
than we have ever been
since I moved to the UK.
Regardless of the distance,
we have a call everyday
around 6:30 (before
clapping time in Spain – they
do it every day there!) just to
have jokes, see each other
on video, cheer everyone
up. We also get to see the
baby of the family who is
growing faster and faster!
Before this we could spend
weeks without talking with
each other, and now we
don’t spend a day without
seeing each other, even if it
is through a screen.”
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